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Old 29th April 2016, 03:48 PM
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Got my Botang's orifice sealed up today.

My mechanic couldn't find the hole at first but then, thanks to the great photographs posted here, he eventually managed to locate it

He reckons it's probably the bonnet release cable entry hole for LHD vehicles. I think he may be right.
ooh thats really interesting that must mean there's a reverse version of Botangs hole on the LHD cars
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Old 29th April 2016, 04:03 PM
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Not necessarily, it may not be in such an unhelpful place as not everything is mirrored, far from it. The ECU box for example is very different between LHD and RHD in the D2, nothing like a mirror image.
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ooh thats really interesting that must mean there's a reverse version of Botangs hole on the LHD cars
What, you mean a Sgnatob's hole?
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I don't know if I should worry or not. Its hard enough to find Botang's hole, no one has found s'gnatob hole yet
On the bright side, I hope that means my hole is sealed with some kind of rubber guide for the cable.
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I don't know if I should worry or not. Its hard enough to find Botang's hole, no one has found s'gnatob hole yet
On the bright side, I hope that means my hole is sealed with some kind of rubber guide for the cable.
This is turning in to "Carry on A8-ing" lol
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Arrgghh!! I've got saturated carpets front and rear after my car has sat for a week, and through the biblical rain on Thurs night. Water sloshing out of rear vents. My wheel arch drains are always clear. Have I got a Botang problem...?

VAX and carpets out job...grrrr. No problem in 9 years!!

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Water out of the rear vents is blocked climate drains, which will make the footwells wet on both sides as it also sloshes out of the main heater box via the ducts which feed the footwells and lower side vents. Thats fairly simple to fix by taking the two centre console panels out and cleaning out the orange tubes.

Botangs hole is water ingress behind the glove box and just drips on to the fusebox on that side.
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Arrgghh!! I've got saturated carpets front and rear after my car has sat for a week, and through the biblical rain on Thurs night. Water sloshing out of rear vents. My wheel arch drains are always clear. Have I got a Botang problem...?
Only time I've had so much water ingress (inc. water in the rear vents) was due to a blocked centre drain (the one to the rear of the engine compartment).
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Same here; blocked main scuttle drains, overflow (carrying crap) into aircon drains, block those, eventually filling up all the pipes and underfloor areas inside the car.

Edit: Not recently - I check and clear those main scuttle drains regularly now.
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How high does the water in the scuttle have to get to get in to the AC? Wouldn't it have to be almost full?
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